Woman tries to pass $1 million bill at Wal-Mart

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Woman tries to pass $1 million bill at Wal-Mart

Jon_King

2:00 am on Mar 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

I guess CNN is trying to take market share from USA Today with this story:

[cnn.com...]

lawman

2:06 am on Mar 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

"I need some change for register 6 please; change for register 6."

lawman

2:26 am on Mar 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

"I'll take the Lamborghini -- and keep the change."

Jon_King

2:29 am on Mar 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

Ha, ha, ah HA! Your too funny LM.

edit_g

3:33 am on Mar 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

A woman who answered the phone at the jail said she did not know if Pike has a lawyer.

Or how she will be paying the lawyer...

TryAgain

2:05 am on Mar 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

So you try to pay with a $1 million bill and they jail you?
Jeez, these people have no sense of humor. ;)

utica

4:25 am on Mar 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

See, U.S. currency really does need to be in different colors. She probably thought it was a ten.

lexipixel

9:14 pm on Mar 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

U.S. Teasury v. Love22

Love22 (which is his legal name) was arrested for selling his $22 bills...

browse: <http://love22.com/trial.htm>

I know "Love", met him back in the 80's... I've got a couple of the bills around here somewhere.

skipfactor

9:31 pm on Mar 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

Did she really think there's a Wal-Mart employee capable of making change on a million dollars? I've had issues getting change off of a twenty dollar bill!

Jon_King

12:01 am on Mar 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

I believe a few of the Waltons could make that change.

skipfactor

6:10 am on Mar 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

err, yah, but they're not working the tills

SEOMike

5:26 pm on Mar 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

If she thought the bill was real, why didn't she go pay cash for a house or a car?

OH... never mind. If she thought the bill was real, she wouldn't have the processor power to make a good decision like that.

hannamyluv

6:12 pm on Mar 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

Sad thing is that her husband is a coin collector and bought the bills as a gag...

Robino

6:58 pm on Mar 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

The best part is that they wouldn't take it and THEN she asked them to change it.

"Mam, this is fake."

-"Well, Can I have some real ones in exchange for it?"

Strange

9:22 pm on Mar 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

If you are fortunate enough to have a million dollar bill.. (let alone 3 of them).. Why are you going to be shopping at walmart? And how can anyone honestly think that trying to shop with a million dollar bill wouldn't get unwanted attention?

I would say this woman was on drugs.. I just have trouble believing that someone that is able to establish bipedal movement could think this would work...

Jon_King

10:47 pm on Mar 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yes indeed. Strange story Strange.

shrirch

6:06 am on Mar 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

>> Why are you going to be shopping at walmart?

She must have had the same economics lecturer in college as me... "You don't become rich by making money, you become rich by saving it".

SlowMove

12:08 pm on Mar 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

I don't see why the store gave her a hard time. The clerk could have easily found the change in Monopoly sets from the toy department.

mack

4:52 pm on Mar 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

I remember reading somewere that, there are actualy "legal" $1000000 bills that are used within the federal reserve for internal transactions.

Mack.

lawman

4:58 pm on Mar 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

Denominations [ustreas.gov]

One Million Dollar Note [ustreas.gov]

pmac

6:12 pm on Mar 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

>One Million Dollar Note <

originally sold by a Canadian firm for $1.00 each as a collectible item.

I figured we must have had a hand in this.

Shak

7:55 pm on Mar 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

>One Million Dollar Note <
originally sold by a Canadian firm for $1.00 each as a collectible item.
I figured we must have had a hand in this.

aha, so thats what You, Oilman and Jenstar have been upto...

Shak